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Well, in order to help, we would need to know just what kind of map, of what and what style you are planning on doing this map. All we have to go on atm is the proposed size of it. We have plenty of tutorials so you might find some guidance in the Tutorial Forum. If you are not sure what software to use, the Software forum is the place to go for that....

are quite willing to help, but we need to know where you want to go. Do you have an example of what you have, or is it in the very beginning (just an idea) stage?

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What you do is make up a text file and each character converts into a little image that the web browser renders in a grid. So for just editing the file with notepad then you can upload it and get it rendered into something nice. You need to take a screen shot of the screen because the screen is made up of loads of little images but thats normally not too hard. Maybe it would be for 800x800 squares tho.

So how big are each of the squares ?

I could modify my little script to do that job if you post up the images of 7 types of square then *all* you have to do is make up the 800x800 x 9 levels of text file !!!

Personally I would not use a web browser but render them directly into an image but to do that you would have to know the scripting language but then you would be able to get one image out. But if your prepared to use your web browser and clip a few screen grabs together then I could make that happen no problem.

Well if you have say 100 to 150 squares in a tile and need 8 or 5 tiles square of that to make up one level then if you have a screen res of 1000 pixels you can have 10pix to 7 pix square each. I.e. 100 x 10 = 1000 or 7 x 150 = 1050 pixels. If you needed a grid as well then that has to come out of the size too. If your just after plain coloured tiles then post a list of all of the letters and what colour you want them to be. Make sure each letter is unique so Plains and Pics may need to be different. I would not suggest using numbers as your head will spin looking at them all. Maybe use a letter with a shape that looks like what you want represented perhaps then when viewed as a whole it may look like ascii art.

Ok, These are the following types you want. For each one, assign a letter that you want to use in the ascii text file to upload and also the colour of the resulting tile it will generate for each one. Tell me if you want grid lines around each square and if so, what colour.

Just bumping this - did anyone have a go with this and did it work out ok ? Or was it all in vain ?

Just messing with This one which was the first one in my search I found under ascii maps. Then I did some replace on it to the letters were using and then uploaded using the utility. No idea what I am looking at tho...